Andy Beshear releases endorsements after again declining to list companies he's represented against the state

Democratic attorney general candidate Andy Beshear is releasing a list of prominent endorsement days after telling the Lexington-Herald Leader he will not be disclosing his client list — a question Pure Politics has posed to Beshear since the summer of 2013.

Beshear, the son of current Gov. Steve Beshear, is currently the lone candidate in the race for attorney general in 2015 and has been breaking records with more than $1.48 million already raised for the race.

On Saturday the Lexington newspaper pointed out that Beshear, who wants to protect Kentuckians in the office “won’t discuss his legal work or identify any of the clients he has represented before the attorney general.”

In September of 2013 while Beshear was still mulling a run for attorney general Pure Politics posed the question on his current representation to Beshear and current Attorney General Jack Conway.

From the 2013 article:

Beshear, like his father once did, works for Stites & Harbison. And that firm, for instance, is one of several representing pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma. Purdue Pharma manufactures the painkiller Oxycontin, which has proven to be addictive. And Kentucky has been in a six-year lawsuit over the marketing of the drug to Kentucky doctors. Beshear is not one of the firm’s primary lawyers listed on that case, according to court filings.

Beshear has continued to say he will not disclose his client list when asked again by Pure Politics in August of 2014 at pre-Fancy Farm events.

On Monday, Beshear released a lengthy list of Kentucky attorneys supporting his candidacy:

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